above, pp. 76, 104 ff.

268 See p. 8.

269 Cp. Thomson, _op. cit._, p. 61.

270 xxxi. 6.

271 These two extremes are represented by Winckler and Duhm
respectively.

272 Sing. as partly in Greek and wholly in Syriac.

273 With Greek omit _them_ of the Hebrew text.

274 Hebrew adds _all_.

275 As above, Greek omits all of the Hebrew verses 7, 8 except the last
clause which follows naturally on verse 6.

276 See above, pp. 40 ff.

277 This consideration seems to dispose of Koenig's claim that Jeremiah
here maintains the Sinai-Covenant (with the Decalogue) in opposition
to the Moab-Covenant set forth in Deuteronomy. How could the former
be defined in the time of Josiah as _this Covenant_ or described in
Deuteronomic phrases? See also G. Douglas, "Book of Jeremiah," p.
156.

278 Dr. Skinner (_op. cit._, p. 100) thinks that "the accumulation of
distinctively Deuteronomic phrases and ideas in verses 4, 5 implies
a dependence on that book which savours strongly of editorial
workmanship." But if _this Covenant_ be the Deuteronomic, as he
admits, what more natural than to state it in Deuteronomic terms,
expressive as these are only of its spiritual essence? I would also
refer to what I have said on p. 41 as to the effect on the Prophet
of the new and haunting style of Deuteronomy.

279 Dr. Skinner's authoritative support to the substance of the thesis
maintained above is very welcome, strengthened as it is by the point
which he makes in the first of the following sentences: "The
deliberate invention of an incident, which had no point of contact
in the authentic record of his life, is a procedure of which no
assured parallel is found in the book. We must at least believe that
a trustworthy tradition lies behind the passage in ch. xi; and the
conclusion to which it naturally points is that Jeremiah was at
first strongly in favour of the law of Deuteronomy, and lent his
moral support to the reformation of Josiah" (pp. 102-3). Wellhausen,
"Isr. u. Juedische Gesch." (1894, p. 97): "An der Einfuehrung des
Deuteronomiums hatte er mitgewirkt, zeitlebens eiferte er gegen die
illegitimen Altaere in den Staedten Judas.... Aber mit den Wirkungen
der Reformation war er keineswegs zufrieden." So too J. R. Gillies,
"Jeremiah," p. 113, and W.